Pickle-spear.



P. H. UNSINGER.

PICKLE SPEAR.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30. l9l6.

1 ,275,504. Patented Aug. 13, 1918.

IN VEN TUE To all whom it may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

PHILIP H. UNSINGER, OF FREMONT, OHIO.

PICKLE-SPEAB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

;Patented Aug. 13, 1918.

Application filed December so, 1916. Serial No. 139303.

declare the following to be a full,-clear, and

exact description the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a tool particularly intended for use in removing olives, pickles or the like from bottles, jars or other containers.

It is well understood that it is a diflicult matter to remove olives, pickles, or the like, from bottles or jars containing a liquid, by the use of a fork, especially if the olives or pickles are floating in the liquid, and it is the object of my invention to provide a tool which is capable of being used to easily and quickly spear the olives or pickles floating in the liquid within the bottle or jar and. to remove 'them therefrom.

The invention is fully described in the following specification, and while, in its broader aspect, it is capable of embodiment in numerous forms, a preferred embodiment thereof is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tool embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof, and Fig. 3 is a view thereof inserted into a bottle and in the act of being engaged to an olive.

'Referrmg to the drawings, the tool embodying ing a shank or handle part 1 in the form of a rod with one end spirally shaped, as at 2, and terminating in a point or spear head 3, which is sharp at its outer end to adapt it to easily penetrate the skin of an olive or pickle and has shoulders at the rear of its point to facilitate a retaining of the engaged olive or pickle on the spear. part 2, in the present instance,

forms approximately one-half of a com lete convo- Iution with the spear head or point 3 thereof disposed in transversely ofl'set relation to the axial line of the handle part 1, which use the same,-

my invention is shown as compris- The spiral line registers with the axis of the semi-circle 56 formed by the spiral 2.

The outer end of the handle 1 is preferably knurled, as at 4, to facilitate a turning of the tool by the fingers holding the same.

It is evident that a turning of the tool about 60 the longitudinal axis of its handle will cause a revoluble movement of the spear head 3 and adapt it to exert a transverse spearing thrust againstan olive, pickle or other object disposed at one side of the axial line of the handle as illustrated in Fig. 3. If the object which it is desired tolengage by the spear is floating in a liquid, such object may be moved to adjacent one side wall of the container in which it is disposed and the point of the spear then placed against one side of the object in opposition to the adjacent wall of the container and the spear given a twisting movement to effect a spiral turning of the spear head into the object, 7

thus rendering it exceptionally easy to engage a floating object and withdraw it from the container. v

While this tool is particularly intended for use in removing olives, pickles, or the like, from bottles or jars, it is also adapted for table use as a pickle spear as the spiral form of the pickle engaging end thereof enables it to be easily engaged with a pickle, and the pickle therefrom by placing it on a plate and then giving the spear a backward turning movement to withdraw the spear end therefrom. I wish it understood that my invention is not limited to rangement or form of the parts, except in so ar as such limitations are specified in the claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and tors Patent, isv A pickle spear comprising a single rod forming a handle at one end and having its other end tapering to reduce its size and terminating in a single spiral bend of decided slgned my name to this specification.

PHILIP n. UNSINGER.

can then be easily removed any specific construction, ar-

desire to secure by Let- In testimony whereof, I have hereunto 

